Leonard Lehrman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leonard Lehrman

American composer

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1949

Place of Birth: Kansas, United States

Profession: composer, conductor, librarian, musicologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman is an American composer who was born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949, and grew up in Roslyn, New York.
Since Aug.
3, 1999, he has resided in Valley Stream, New York. His teachers included Lenore Anhalt, Elie Siegmeister, Olga Heifetz, the Guarneri Quartet, Elizabeth Korte, Earl Kim, Kyriena Siloti, Harry Levin, Nadia Boulanger, Jean-Jacques Painchaud, Leon Kirchner, David Del Tredici, James Yannatos, Karel Husa, William Austin, Robert Palmer, George Gibian, Tibor Kozma, Wolfgang Vacano, Donald Erb, and John Eaton.
On July 31, 1978 he married Karen Shaw Campbell.
They were divorced in November, 1986.
On July 14, 2002 he married Helene Williams Spierman.
They have collaborated on over 640 performances since March 1987, including 17 CDs and over 3300 videos on YouTube, with over 430,000 views to date. He graduated cum laude from Harvard; received a master's degree and a doctorate in music composition from Cornell; a master's degree in library science from Long Island University and studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
His first original opera was the subject of a 2014 doctoral thesis by Jeremy Blackwood, posted at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700028/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf